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Fielding questions from an audience of 200 in the Law School Forum, the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Black civil rights leader said that Jackson's campaign for the Democratic nomination is aimed solely at mobilizing a minority constituency and airing minority issues...
...very first communication addressed to the Soviets by the Reagan Administration, a letter from me to Andrei Gromyko on the day after the Inauguration, expressed American concern over the possibility of Soviet intervention in Poland. "We will stay out," I told Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin in the early spring of 1981, "and we want you to do the same." Dobrynin's somber reply: the Soviet Union would do what...
...already heard that Sharon had visited Israel's Phalangist allies in Beirut. War seemed very near. Our duty to attempt to prevent it was obvious; our ability to do so, questionable. After informing the President of this latest development, I sent our Ambassador to Israel, Samuel Lewis, to Begin with instructions to tell him that an Israeli operation along the lines described to us would have far-reaching consequences for our relationship. The Israelis should not misjudge American public opinion; it would not tolerate such an operation in current circumstances. Begin interrupted. "Don't use those words...
...trip started, it appeared certain Israel would invade Lebanon in a matter of hours, days or weeks. On June 3, the casus belli the Israelis had been waiting for materialized. In London, Arab terrorists shot and grievously wounded Shlomo Argov, the Israeli Ambassador to Britain. Israel bombed a P.L.O. ammunition dump in Beirut, and the P.L.O. struck back against northern Israel. On June 5, the Israeli Cabinet approved a large-scale invasion of Lebanon. Begin informed us that the objective was to drive the P.L.O. back 40 km from the Israeli border...
...March 28, 1982, a Sunday, the brilliant and studiously rumpled British Ambassador, Sir Nicholas ("Nikko") Henderson, brought me a letter from Lord Carrington. A party of Argentines, wrote the Foreign Secretary, had landed nine days earlier on the island of South Georgia, a British possession in the South Atlantic, some 800 miles southeast of the Falkland Islands, a British crown colony. "I should be grateful if you would consider taking...